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Alice Grove MCDLT - September 2016
BenRG:
He likes playing with toys he doesn't really understand. Mucking around with them has triggered an avalanche of events (including the Night Walker going over to attack mode) that he does not understand and is not even fully aware of just yet.
Wildroses:
Anybody else think Jesper was really thinking: "Pffft, good luck with that kid!" in the last panel?
retrosteve:
--- Quote from: Zebediah on 18 Sep 2016, 05:21 ---Pate seems like kind of a minor-league villain. Sure, he's got a scary henchman, but there's no way he's the Big Bad of the story. So what, I wonder, is his role in the big picture?
--- End quote ---
I'll go out on a limb and predict that his role is to do just the opposite of what Alice wants: he wants to get Ardent to upgrade all his technology, advancing the Praesides' plan for his own obvious reasons. He is probably ignorant or not interested in their plan anyway. He probably thinks Ardent and Gavia have access to great nanotech, which he can use to increase his own influence. He's right, though ultimately it's going to trigger an avalanche of nasty consequences if he succeeds.
As petty short-sighted villains typically do, he'll probably die in the first wave of awful, just before the most serious of these consequences becomes obvious.
Oh, wait -- P.S. He was first interested because of the explosion on the moon. He may be hoping to go to space himself, or send his henchmen there.
brasca:
--- Quote from: retrosteve on 18 Sep 2016, 09:05 ---
--- Quote from: Zebediah on 18 Sep 2016, 05:21 ---Pate seems like kind of a minor-league villain. Sure, he's got a scary henchman, but there's no way he's the Big Bad of the story. So what, I wonder, is his role in the big picture?
--- End quote ---
I'll go out on a limb and predict that his role is to do just the opposite of what Alice wants: he wants to get Ardent to upgrade all his technology, advancing the Praesides' plan for his own obvious reasons. He is probably ignorant or not interested in their plan anyway. He probably thinks Ardent and Gavia have access to great nanotech, which he can use to increase his own influence. He's right, though ultimately it's going to trigger an avalanche of nasty consequences if he succeeds.
As petty short-sighted villains typically do, he'll probably die in the first wave of awful, just before the most serious of these consequences becomes obvious.
Oh, wait -- P.S. He was first interested because of the explosion on the moon. He may be hoping to go to space himself, or send his henchmen there.
--- End quote ---
Possibly. He could be the kind of antagonist who is introduced early on that seems impressive and scary until someone worse eclipses him. Bruno Manheim comes to mind. His criminal organization antagonizes Superman early on and gets advanced technology from Darkseid who has his own agenda and later disposes of him when he's no longer useful. As such Pate could be an unwitting pawn of the Praesides whether they have directly contacted him or not.
Loki:
Fan theory: Pete is actually Harry James Potter-Evans-Verres, from the "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality" fanfic.
(I might have been binge reading its unofficial sequel, Significant Digits, for the past two days :psyduck:).
Proof:
* they both want to use technology to do stuff
* they are both toying with powers they do not understand
* most damningly, they both have glasses
If you cannot see it, you are blind. :clairedoge:
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